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Baramulla: Former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday claimed that PDP did not ally with NDA government at centre and had it been so the party’s senior leader Muzaffar Hussain Beigh would have been a minister like Omar Abdullah, the National Conference vice president, during the NDA-led by late Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2004.
Addressing workers at Baramulla, Mehbooba also claimed that PDP sacrificed in allying with BJP for “resolution of Kashmir and for talks with Hurriyat Conference”. “We tried our level best. We sacrificed party. We sacrificed ourselves. The only aim behind it was that there should be talks with Pakistan. There should be talks with Hurriyat Conference. Unfortunately it was not understood here,” Mehbooba said.
The talks with Pakistan or Hurriyat Conference did not happen as long as the PDP-BJP alliance lasted.In fact, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally on November 7, 2015, in spite of repeated references by then chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, who spoke ahead of him during the rally here, skipped any talk of friendship with Pakistan and dialogue with Hurriyat Conference, saying he doesn’t need advice from anyone in the world on Kashmir.“We did not form coalition with NDA at centre and had it been so Beigh Sahib (Muzaffar Hussain Beigh) would have been a minister similarly as Omar sahib (Omar Abdullah) was minister in NDA led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.” Later talking to reporters, Mehbooba also rejected Omar Abdullah’s claim that NIA was brought to J&K by the PDP, saying the Indian investigation agency was brought during alliance of National Conference and the Congress in 2009.
